Managing communication equipment for eight-person team installing audio and video cable in venues for broadcast of 2014 Olympic Games

Part-time server, bartender and trivia-night host at upscale Italian restaurant in Aspen, Colo.

Compiled, edited and packaged content on deadline five nights a week for publication in four different six- or seven-day daily newspapers and online editions in Colorado and California; editor of weekly arts-and-entertainment supplements for two dailies while working on night news desk; joined weekly magazine covering arts and entertainment in South Lake Tahoe, Calif./Stateline, Nev., as writer, page designer and Web editor (2008 California Newspaper Publishers Association award for general excellence as well as 2008-09 Nevada Press Association awards for criticism and arts-and-entertainment writing).

Set up front of house in outdoor amphitheater for nightly performances by professional Shakespeare company; acted as liaison between front-of-house, restaurant and artistic staff during performances; closed venue after each performance

One-man department covering professional, recreational and prep (three high schools) sports for weekly newspaper in Eagle-Vail, Colo., that added five-day product in 1998; 1999 Colorado Press Association award for sports column writing.

Covered three town governments (Madison, Mayodan, Stoneville) as well as seniors community, civic groups, agriculture and one prep football team as general-assignment reporter and photographer for five-day daily newspaper in North Carolina's Piedmont region.